Join a Group of CMI Members Attending the Movie, Giant
A live capture of a Broadway performance
The CMI Brotherhood of Men and Women (BMW) is organizing a group to attend the live-capture film screening of the movie Giant on December 17th at the Elm City Cabaret in the Schubert Theater in New Haven. BMW members can purchase discounted tickets at the weekly Sunday Coffee Shop or by email. Non-members can purchase tickets from the Schubert box office.
Giant is a 2024 play written by Mark Rosenblatt. It is a dramatization of a period in author Roald Dahl's life after his 1983 literary review of God Cried, a picture book about the siege of West Beirut by the Israeli army during the 1982 Lebanon War, was deemed antisemitic.
A world-famous children’s author under threat. A battle of wills in the wake of scandal. And one chance to make amends...It’s the summer of 1983, The Witches is about to hit the shelves and Roald Dahl is making last-minute edits. But the outcry at his recent, explicitly antisemitic article won’t die down. Across a single afternoon at his family home, and rocked by an unexpectedly explosive confrontation, Dahl is forced to choose: make a public apology or risk his name and reputation. Inspired by real events, GIANT explores with dark humour the difference between considered opinion and dangerous rhetoric offering a complicated portrait of a fiendishly charismatic icon.
This is a screening of the live capture Broadway performance of GIANT, and is not a stage performance.
GIANT, the 5-star critically acclaimed play starring John Lithgow (Killers of the Flower Moon, The Crown) as Roald Dahl, comes to the big screen. Winner of 3 Olivier Awards® including Best Play and a Tony Award® for Best Actor in a Play (John Lithgow), the production was filmed live in London’s West End ahead of its sold-out Broadway run. The stellar cast includes Aya Cash (The Boys, The Franchise, You’re the Worst), Elliot Levey (Cold War, Patriots, Good) and Rachael Stirling (The Divine Mrs S).
Elm City’s Cabaret in the Schubert Theater, New Haven
Thursday, December 17th at 7 pm.
BMW members can purchase tickets at the CMI Sunday Coffee Shop or by sending their request by email to cmibrotherhood@cmihamden.org. Tickets for BMW members are $15 each. Nonmembers can purchase tickets from the Schubert box office for $20 each.